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Introduction Psychology of luck is very arguable theme nowadays. What luck depends on? It is important to know: –Why some people are called accident-prone and others just lucky guys? –How to create your own luck? Superstitious beliefs – prietarai Accident-prone – traukiantis nelaimes

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Maximise Chance Opportunities Wiseman’s experiment with people who call themselves lucky and unlucky. Lucky people score higher on the personality factor of extraversion and in openness. Lucky people score lower in neuroticism. Lucky people keep in touch with large groups of friends and acquaintances. acquaintances - pažįstami

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Expect Good Fortune Lucky people are certain that the future is going to be full of fortune. Self-fullfilling prophecies by helping lucky people persist in the face of failure. prophecies - pranašystės

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Turn Bad Luck to Good “Counter-factual” – ability to imagine what might have happened, rather than what actually did happen. Take control of situation. Lucky people employ various psychological techniques to cope with, and often even thrive upon, the ill fortune that comes their way. Thrive upon - apsidžiaugti